how do you use your pond?

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our property includes a pond site that was drained when it was divided. the previous owner says we can build a new pond though it will be smaller.

How do you use your homestead pond? We want to raise enough fish for our own use. Any advice?

-- alana (lester@erols.com), July 29, 2000

Answers

If you are just raising it for yourself (none for sale) then you might just want to buy a tank (or kids pool, or livestock water tank). It will take up less area (& less water), so more of your land can be used for other things. You also have the benifit of not haveing to fish for one meal, just dip in a net. I know some like to relax & fish, so another idea would be (if property is big enought) to use it as a pay lake. Fish & Game will stock your lake (sometimes free sometimes not) if you open it to the public.

Hope this helps

animalfarms

-- animalfarms (jwlewis@indy.net), July 30, 2000.


The answer about the wading pool is good. I have a setup like that. I got some good info right here, look at my question "Aquaponics setup for $25" on this board, There are some informative answers there.

-- Jay Blair (jayblair678@yahoo.com), July 31, 2000.

Our pond was already stocked when we bought the farm. Here in IA you can stock a pond fairly reasonably. We have plenty of fish in the pond if we wanted to eat that much fish.

We also have a pipe out of our pond that fills a cattle tank for our livestock. We had to shut off the tank most of this year due to the dry year, but the pond has filled and we just re-opened the tank last week.

You might check with your local FSA office to see if they will help pay for the pond. There are some funds in some areas for this.

-- beckie (sunshine_horses@yahoo.com), July 31, 2000.


Here in Central Florida, we raise our fish in a 27' dia. above ground pool and our mosquitoes in our pond. We found that the mosquitoes are about the only thing that the predators, mainly racoons, ospreys and herons, won't eat. Good luck, John and Pat

-- John and Pat James (jjames@n-jcenter.com), August 05, 2000.

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